Tohoku Earthquake & Nuclear Crisis

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

No cleanup 'til 2022

Japan's Atomic Energy Commission of the Cabinet Office on Friday, said the removal of debris -- or nuclear fuel -- should begin by the end of 2021.

That's for the reactors themselves....but in the meantime what about what's already been released?

But the timetable doesn't address plans for dealing with the radiation released into the wider environment from the Fukushima disaster, said Timothy Mousseau, a radiation ecologist at the University of South Carolina.